Breakfast Bread

This stuff is amazing. It's super easy to make, doesn't take many ingredients, and is much tastier than it sounds from the recipe. It's really more like a cake made into a bread shape; somewhat like banana bread.

1 cup sugar

2 large eggs

3 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup milk

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter and flour 9x5-inch loaf pan. Using electric mixer, beat sugar, eggs and butter in large bowl until well blended. Beat in milk. Mix flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in medium bowl. Add to butter mixture and beat just until blended.

Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake until golden brown and tester inserted into center of bread comes out clean, about 1 hour. Transfer pan to rack and cool 10 minutes. Using small knife, cut around sides of pan to loosen bread. Turn bread out onto rack and cool completely. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap in foil and store at room temperature.)

NaNo Recipes

It's that time again - NaNoWriMo! I'm two days behind, but not doing too badly. Of course, NaNo always means the conundrum of, "I want dessert, but I don't have time to make anything involved, like a pie." So I'm collecting quick recipes for good treats. Right now I've got a breakfast bread in the oven, but I won't post the recipe until I see how it comes out. Over the weekend, I made these:

Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Muffins

2 cups flour

3 tsps. baking powder

2 tbsps. sugar

3/4 tsp. salt

1 egg

3 tbsps. butter, melted

1 cup milk, warmed

2 tbsps. cocoa

1/2 cup chocolate chips

1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Combine the flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Melt the butter and add it to the warm milk. Stir the butter mixture and the egg into the dry ingredients and whisk until just blended. Add the cocoa, the chocolate chips, and the vanilla. Whisk until the cocoa is not entirely blended for a marbled look. Bake 20-25 minutes. Makes ~12 muffins.